How has rumble stayed around? In fact, how did it even get approved from the start?! The idea sounds preposterous to the uninitiated: When stuff happens in the game, the controller will shake, and people will like that. It sounds completely crazy, yet somehow, it’s become the norm for all modern video game…

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If Splatoon taught us anything back in 2015 (I know, not even that long ago!) it’s that Nintendo knows how bring a new IP to the table. This time they’ve decided to take on the fighting-games genre with a very Nintendo twist. Or coil. Or Spring...

Nintendo has done it. They reached apex Mario Kart. After the critically acclaimed, must-have game that was Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, where else could they take the series? Apparently the answer is nowhere, because instead of a new iteration on the Nintendo Switch we have an incremental upgrade that includes all DLC and…

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This past weekend I took my first trip to NYC and naturally, instead of visiting the Kotaku offices to visit my favorite gaming news editors, I made my way to the Nintendo NYC store for a bit of a shopping spree. The experience is something I’d been looking forward to for a while. I was not disappointed.

As I’ve written about before, ARMS had its work cut out to win me over. But, by golly, did those two Nintendo Directs do it! It was with great anticipation that I waited to get into the action myself for the ARMS Testpunch.

When ARMS was first revealed at the Switch event in January, I could not have cared about it less. We had awesome trailers for Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, and even Xenoblade Chronicles, and all of this excitement surrounding these well-known franchises, not to mention just the Switch itself, drowned ARMS in a pool of…

So, the Switch came out a few months ago, and it’s selling gangbusters! It really seems to be the resurgence of Nintendo as a company most gamers take seriously, which is a nice breath of fresh air after the Wii U’s... “problems.” But, despite its “problems,” the Wii U had at least one thing going for it:…

So, as you can tell from my previous article, I love The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And one of my favorite things about the game is how gosh darn beautiful the game’s world is. It might not be as technically impressive as, say Horizon: Zero Dawn, but Nintendo has a good track record of creating timeless art…

Every gamer has something a little different that they look for in a video game. Some look for a platformer that is completely unforgiving and requires absolute perfection from the player. Others look for 200-hour RPGs that tell a rich story with a rich and complex battle system to go with it. Me? I’m no special…

So, The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is pretty damn awesome. Its already (rightfully) seen as the new Ocarina of Time and could very well be my and many others favorite game of this generation! But like all Games I ever played, and all games in general, it is not perfect. Breath of the Wild has flaws, missed…

I think Chinatown Wars may have gone under the radar for a lot of people. Maybe it’s the popularity of GTA 4 and 5 but despite the fact that Chinatown Wars has, to date, been released on nearly every single portable platform I almost never heard of anyone ever bringing it up. It’s a shame, because even despite its…

The Nintendo faithful are no stranger to remakes and rereleases. The Wii U and 3DS have seen their fair share of updated classics in recent years, but most of those title were in desperate need of a face lift. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe isn’t a big leap from it’s 2014 source material, but it’s certainly the definitive…